Fairchild's 19th Annual International Mango Festival will celebrate the Mangos of Hawaii.

Visit the festival to shop Curator Choice mango trees and fresh fruit, enjoy mango lectures and smoothies, view the world's largest display of mangos, take part in the world's only mango auction and buy mango merchandise and botanical art.

There will also be mango culinary demonstrations, our one of a kind mango brunch, a fantastic International Fruit Market and fun activities for kids.

A short cold season and long dry spell have made it one of the best years in memory for South Florida’s signature fruit

BY ROCHELLE KOFFRKOFF@MIAMIHERALD.COM

For South Florida mango lovers, this season is particularly sweet.

If you have a mango tree or two, chances are you’ve been scrambling in the sweltering heat to stay ahead of the squirrels, serving mangoes at every meal and lugging bags of fruit to work.

An unusually cold December and record dry season were the perfect recipe for “one of the better years,” for the golden beauties, said Louise King, president of the Tropical Fruit Growers of South Florida. “It’s absolutely wonderful for mangoes. They look like jewels hanging from the trees.”

Their flavor is exceptionally sumptuous, too.

“This year, they’re prettier, they’re sweeter,” said Dr. Richard Campbell, director of horticulture for Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables. “Everything about them is better because of the very, very dry conditions we’ve ha…

DUBAI - India, the largest producer of mangoes in the world, plans measures to double its fresh mango exports, a top government official said.

In this regard the country is working on infrastructure development and also establishing linkage of production hub with markets that will help improve its export competitiveness.

“The linkage of production hub with markets will help to get better prices for its produce to producer and it will also encourage the producer to produce more qualify products,” A.S. Rawat, General Manager, Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, told Khaleej Times in an exclusive interview in Dubai on Wednesday.

India produces around 15 million tonnes mangoes that accounts for over 50 per cent of the world production. Other major producers of mangoes in the world are Pakistan, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Australia and Philippines etc. India exports less than half per cent of its tota…

IMO NOTE: ANY WEEK THE MARKET IMPORTS MORE THAN 2 MILLION CARTONS, THE IMO BELIEVES THAT THE $3.00 PRICE RANGE CANNOT BE BROKEN. THE USDA DATA EXPLAINS WHY THE MARKET HAS BEEN FLOODED FOR THE PAST 15 WEEKS....U.S. Import Volume
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The standard model for the entry of the Indo-European languages into India is that this first wave went over the Hindu Kush, forming the Gandhara grave (or Swat) culture, either into the headwaters of the Indus or the Ganges (probably both).

The Gandhara grave culture is thus the most likely locus of the earliest bearers of Rigvedic culture, and based on this Parpola (1998) assumes an immigration to the Punjab ca. 1700-1400 BC, but he also postulates a first wave of immigration from as early as 1900 BC, corresponding to the Cemetery H culture. However, this culture may also represent forerunners of the Indo-Iranians, similar to the Lullubi and Kassite invasion of Mesopotamia early in the second millennium BC.

Kochhar (2000:185–186) argues that there were three waves of Indo-Aryan immigration that occurred after the mature Harappan phase:

This idea was already in the air in 2003 when Stott traveled though the worst heat wave in recorded European history on a wedding anniversary trip to Italy and Switzerland.

One of the striking consequences he noticed was that the Swiss mountains were missing their usual melodious tinkling of cowbells. "There was no water in the mountains, and the farmers had to take all their cows down in the valley," he says. He decided to see if he could pin part of the blame on climate change after he returned to his office in Exeter, England. "I didn't expect to get a positive result," he says

But he did. In fact, the signal of a warming climate was quite clear in Europe, even using data up to only 2000. In a landmark paper in Nature; Stott and colleagues concluded that the chances of a heat wave like the 2003 event have more than doubled because of climate change. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) Data collected since then show that the odds are at …